Top prospect leaves my team for football

[Brennan]

Just...wow. I drafted this guy 13th overall and spent $4.7 million to sign him.

[ohiodevil]

6'1" 185lb Defensive End! That cracked me up!

I have had this happen to me before, I went hard after an International Amateur and spent $6.4 mil on him, only to have him leave baseball for a career as a pro golfer.

[Book_Archer]

[QUOTE=Brennan;4606017]Just...wow. I drafted this guy 13th overall and spent $4.7 million to sign him./QUOTE]

Lol, I had the same, exact thing happen to me yesterday, and it really pissed me off when it happened. By the way, did you happen to draft a center fielder by the name of Heston Kjerstad with your second-round pick?

[SirMichaelJordan]

lol a few things wrong with that. But to sum it up...A 18 year old 6’1 DE entering the NFL draft!

[CHOWDERHEAD]

Originally Posted by SirMichaelJordan

lol a few things wrong with that. But to sum it up...A 18 year old 6’1 DE entering the NFL draft!

Yeah, nice idea to include the potential scenario in the game but they have to do a much better job with the details and get it right.

[Book_Archer]

Originally Posted by SirMichaelJordan

lol a few things wrong with that. But to sum it up...A 18 year old 6’1 DE entering the NFL draft!

Lol, the weird thing about it isn’t even that he’s kinda short for his position, as there are a fair number of DEs his height in the NFL. The REALLY weird thing about it is that he weighs a mere 180 pounds, around 100 pounds shorter than the average weight DE in the NFL!

[BusterKing]

not realistic, if they signed the contract they have an obligation to honour it

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by BusterKing

not realistic, if they signed the contract they have an obligation to honour it

There's not a contract in the world that says that you "have to" honor anything. That's not the way contracts are written. I don't know what the text of a draft contract is but it's likely something like "you will play for affiliates of whichever major league team owns this contract for the 6 year length spelled out in the CBA. You can't play for any other MLB team. If you refuse to play during this time, you've broken the contract and we have the right to come after you for your signing bonus."

At that, I'm not sure how MLB handles reneged bonuses like that. Do they allow the team to not include that money in that season's draft budget? Does the team actually have to recoup the money in order to make that the case? Even though teams do draft football and basketball players, you really don't hear all that much of this kind of thing going on... the closest I can think of was when Robin Yount quit baseball to play professional golf, and the Brewers did little to nothing in response (Yount changed his mind and came back to baseball - in fact, I've read where that might have been a ploy to get a better deal). Bo Jackson was more or less allowed to play for the Raiders, Danny Ainge left the Blue Jays for the Celtics I believe before his contract with them was up as well...

[thesmokeshow]

Originally Posted by BusterKing

not realistic, if they signed the contract they have an obligation to honour it

It’s 100% realistic. Kyler Murray just basically did the same thing.

[bigdgp2]

Originally Posted by thesmokeshow

It’s 100% realistic. Kyler Murray just basically did the same thing.

I'm fairly certain that Kyler Murray never signed his contract. It was only an offer.

[thesmokeshow]

Originally Posted by bigdgp2

I'm fairly certain that Kyler Murray never signed his contract. It was only an offer.

They still wasted the draft pick which is the important part. The contract doesn’t matter because if it happened, he would just have to give the money back anyways.

Losing that high draft pick until the following year is the crime.

[ShaneCarson]

Originally Posted by bigdgp2

I'm fairly certain that Kyler Murray never signed his contract. It was only an offer.

Kyler Murray most certainly signed with the A's.

https://www.mlb.com/news/kyler-murra...ics-c281361954

[BoomerSoonerAMH]

Originally Posted by bigdgp2

I'm fairly certain that Kyler Murray never signed his contract. It was only an offer.

Nope. He absolutely signed with the Athletics. He paid back all but $210k of the $1.5M of the $4.66M signing bonus that he’d already been paid and forfeited the remainder. Also the Athletics own the rights to him, and have him on the MiLB restricted list indefinitely. It’s similar to Russell Wilson’s situation, albeit he was never the prospect that Murray was.

[SirMichaelJordan]

Originally Posted by Book_Archer

Lol, the weird thing about it isn’t even that he’s kinda short for his position, as there are a fair number of DEs his height in the NFL. The REALLY weird thing about it is that he weighs a mere 180 pounds, around 100 pounds shorter than the average weight DE in the NFL!

Yea I thought i wrote out his full height and weight lol

[curt]

Lol

[SirMichaelJordan]

the min age for this storyline should probably 21.

[itsmb8]

Originally Posted by SirMichaelJordan

the min age for this storyline should probably 21.

To add to that, while this may be a long-shot, it would be nice to have an advanced storyline telling us that it MIGHT happen to said player. Like, the A's and Mariners knew Kyler and Russ would probably play football. In OOTP, you have no clue until it happens.

[thklein]

Did you get the singing bonus money back? Because you should have.

And yes, the scouting report or something should have indicated that the player could potentially decide to play football instead. It is not realistic that a team would draft a player and then be completely blindsided that they decided to play football instead.

[der_k]

Losing a draftee to football like that without warning is unlikely, but suddenly losing a prospect or recent draftee with minimal heads-up does happen. For example, the A's (is it always the A's?) lost top 100 prospect Grant Desme a few years ago when he opted to join the priesthood.

[ablobj]

"Said the Giants Black centerfielder"....what the???